WGP Geneva: shocker in round three

5/6/2013 – It is not often you see the bottom seed in a tournament take a full point from the top seed. But that is what WGM Batchimeg Tuvshintugs did when she outplayed former women's world champion Hou Yifan, rated more than 300 points above her. Bela Khotenashvili and Katerina Lahno won their games and join Anna Muzychuk in the lead after three rounds. Report with GM analysis.

Neva Women's Grand Prix in Geneva

The Neva Foundation in partnership with the Internation Chess Federation
(FIDE) has organised the first leg of the official Women's Grand Prix series
for the first time in Geneva. From May 3 to May 15, twelve of the best women
players featuring current Women World Champion Anna Ushenina from Ukraine,
will confront each other at the N'vY
Manotel. The tournament is an eleven-round all-play-all at classical
time controls.

Round three report

Round 3 on Sunday, May 5th 2013 at 14:00

GM

Tatiana Kosintseva

2517

½-½

GM

Alexandra Kosteniuk

2491

IM

Bela Khotenashvili

2505

1-0

GM

Nana Dzagnidze

2545

WGM

Tuvshintugs Batchimeg

2298

1-0

GM

Yifan Hou

2617

GM

Viktorija Cmilyte

2522

½-½

WGM

Wenjun Ju

2544

GM

Anna Muzychuk

2585

½-½

GM

Anna Ushenina

2491

WGM

Olga Girya

2463

0-1

GM

Kateryna Lagno

2548

The Georgian derby between Bela Khotenashvili
(above in a butterfly blouse)
and Nana Dzagnidze finished in favor of Bela Khotenashvili.

Summaries of all games are available on
the official web site, which also provides analysis of key games by
GM Adrian Mikhalchishin. Adrian sent us his analysis of the dramatically
unexpected encounter between the top and bottom seed:

See also

9/26/2017 – The final classical game. The finals has been relatively sedate with three draws until now. But it could all end today with one decisive game. Ding Liren has the black pieces today. It's going to be an exciting game. Games kick off at 13:00 CEST (7:00 AM EST) with live commentary from Tbilisi by GMs Evgeny Miroshnichenko and WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili and live updates by our reporters Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal.

See also

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